ffXI on a macbook / macbook pro with bootcamp

i posted this in another forum with 0 responses. maybe i should have tried here.

i am interested on purchasing a macbook or macbook pro. i like to play ffXI and was hoping some of you with recent machines would help me out. if you have bootcamp can you download the benchmark program

I have a MacBook Pro and my roomie has a MacBook, we both play FFXI through bootcamp. Mine is really strong at full resolution and highest settings except I turned off AA -- no hiccups except perhaps in the absolute busiest screens where FPS may start to fall a bit. On my roomie's MacBook, he plays the game at low resolution low settings ok, he says the overall experience isn't really that affected and if you just want to play and don't mind having low graphics, it's fine. It does slow down at moderately busy screens. In both our computers, the overall gameplay is fast because of the Core2Duo processor, the only difference is the graphics cards.

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